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I can attest to the fact that this recipe is absolutely outstanding–a friend served it at a dinner party she and her husband hosted last week. Barbequed Steak (even though it was cold as cold can be, Dave braved the outdoors for us), baked potatoes, asparagus and this dressing on a baby spinach salad with roasted walnuts, dried cranberries, blueberries and red onion:

Put all of the ingredients in a blender and mix until smooth. Refridgerate until serving time. This recipe accents a spinach salad well. Use up dressing within a week.

By the way, I brought garlic butter buns–that was my safe contribution. And we were served a chocolate cake celebrating the upcoming birthdays of my husband and I. Within a month of each other we are turning the big 3~0 x 2.

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But the big news of the night was that Debbie and Dave (our hosts) got married. They have been together for well over a quarter of a century and decided to take the plunge in a private ceremony. They broke the wonderful news to my husband and I, and our other good friends, Lee and Rhonda (who were married the same day a year later than we were) after they had celebrated our birthdays. Talk about humble hosts. I did not notice the flowers in the kitchen from their small but elegant wedding, nor the beautiful ring on her finger, (or Dave’s finger for that matter)–which makes me wonder: what kind of a reporter am I?

It would never occur to me to use blueberries in salad DRESSING. Brilliant! Happy birthdays to you and your husband. And why would you notice your friends got married? It seems they’ve been blissful for a quarter century already, they just kicked it up a notch! xoxoM

Tenth wedding anniversary on a beach in Goa with only Goans, ourselves, and one other English couple. The Goans treated us like friends, and things didn’t end till well after sun up. Lots of food, lots of music, lots of singing, lots of fun and comradeship.

Never forgotten it, even now i’m not married any longer. A very precious evening with some very precious people. We went back next year for my 40th birthday. We didn’t stay in the same place, but trekked over and arranged to be with our friends again.
did I mention the fireworks? And the cards and the presents, and the little play they staged?

haha! I wouldn’t have noticed either. I never look at people’s hands. Good for them! I imagine that after a quarter of a century, they know each other fairly well.😀
I’m keeping this recipe. It sounds easy, delicious and I can impress people with very little effort – that’s really what it’s all about, right? LOL!

And that dressing looks wonderful. I have the three blueberry bushes we planted in our backyard last year that produced bunches before they were even in our soil. They are just starting to poke green buds forth and I can taste the berries in my mind. I will copy your recipe and save it for when the berries return.

I love salads like that with fresh blueberry dressing — one of our favorite spots up the NorthShore has a very similar salad to what you posted. Bliss with friends is some of the best — we treasure the 20+ years of our quarterly dinner club gatherings, which I have written about periodically in my blog. Three couples, adding 6 kids between us over the years, and never missing a gathering because of the “bliss” we enjoy!

Congrats all around, Lou Ann — it sounds like a wonderful evening with much to celebrate. That’s the good stuff (bliss) in life! And that blueberry dressing sounds divine. I’m printing it out. I just happen to have some blueberries in the fridge. 🙂

What a lovely night–and a lovely reporting of it!–even though you may have missed some key signs in the excitement of your evening. 😉 This morning was actually going through old photos of picking blueberries so will keep this recipe until next summer because it looks really good!

I have five blueberry bushes in my yard and I always need recipes to use for the berries. My waistline can only handle so many muffins and bread🙂
Lovely evening. Why did they decide to marry after being together so long? They were pretty much done deal already? ( that sounds so romantic– done deal haaa) I am curious though , respectfully of course.

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